26 Jan, 2017 @ 09:00
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Spain boosts Norwegian Air’s passenger numbers to highest ever

Norwegian Air

 

norwegian-airNORWEGIAN Air posted its highest ever passenger figures in a single year, thanks to new routes in Spain and the UK.

The company carried almost 30 million passengers in 2016, 3.6 million more than the previous year.

It comes after the popular airline took delivery of 21 new aircraft and launched 34 new routes, mainly in the US, Spain and the UK.

CEO Bjørn Kjos said: “The traffic figures show that our global strategy works and our competitiveness are strengthened. It is gratifying to see that more and more people choose to fly with us.”

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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